Por qué importa la filosofía
By: Carlos Peña
3.81
Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. On the Battle Lost
By: None , Svetlana Alexievich
4.28
Format: 20 pages,
Svetlana Alexievich held her Nobel Lecture on 7 December 2015, at the Swedish Academy, Stockholm. S… read more
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"Suffering is our capital, our natural resource. Not oil or gas – but suffering. It is the only thing we are able to produce consistently"-None, On the Battle Lost
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3. The Death of Ivan Ilych
By: Leo Tolstoy , Aylmer Maude
4.13
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of I… read more
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"If you look for the working classes in fiction, and especially English fiction, all you find is a hole."-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
"And the further he departed from childhood and the nearer he came to the present the more worthless and doubtful were the joys."-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
"In the depths of his heart he knew that he was dying but, so far from growing used to the idea, he simply did not and could not grasp it."-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
"It can't be that life is so senseless and horrible. But if it really has been so horrible and senseless, why must I die and die in agony? There is something wrong!"-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
4. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
By: Raymond Carver
3.87
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Alternate-cover edition can be found In his second collection, Carver establishes his reputation … read more
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5. Seeing
By: Margaret Jull Costa , José Saramago
2.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
On election day in the capital, it is raining so hard that no one has bothered to come out to vote.… read more
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6. On Liberty
By: John Stuart Mill
3.97
Format: 187 pages, Paperback
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780140432077 Published in 1859, John Stuart Mill's On Liberty p… read more
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"خير لى أن أكون سقراطا ساخرا , من أن أبقى خنزيرا راضيا"-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
"Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field."-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
"An objection which applies to all conduct can be no valid objection to any conduct in particular."-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
"Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement."-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
7. Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
By: None , Keith Gessen
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award On April 2… read more
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8. Jonathan Livingston Seagull
By: Richard Bach , Russell Munson
3.85
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
This is a story for people who follow their hearts and make their own rules...people who get specia… read more
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"Why is it,"-Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull
"Keep working on love."-Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull
"Imagination is an old soul."-Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull
"The gull sees farthest who flies highest"-Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull
9. Le Royaume
By: Emmanuel Carrère
3.64
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Le Royaume raconte l'histoire des debuts de la chretiente, vers la fin du Ier siecle apres Jesus Ch… read more
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10. La vida secreta de la mente: Nuestro cerebro cuando decidimos, sentimos y pensamos
By: Mariano Sigman
3.87
Format: 515 pages,
?Es mejor confiar en la razon o en las corazonadas cuando tomamos decisiones? ?Es posible leer la m… read more
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11. El túnel
By: None
5.00
Format: None pages,
Breve e intensa novela publicada en 1948, este logrado fruto de la denominada "literatura existenci… read more
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12. Momentos estelares de la humanidad: Catorce miniaturas históricas
By: Stefan Zweig , Berta Vias Mahou
4.24
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
Éste es probablemente el libro más famoso de Stefan Zweig. En él lleva a su cima el arte de la mini… read more
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"Pero incluso con sus favoritos, el destino no siempre se muestra magnánimo. Rara vez conceden los dioses a los mortales más de una hazaña única e imperecedera."-Stefan Zweig, Momentos estelares de la humanidad: Catorce miniaturas históricas
"Ama ne yazık ki tarihte hep aynı trajedi tekrarlanmaktadır, çünkü fikir adamları zamanı gelince, dava adamı olma sorumluluğunu üstlenmekte zorlanırlar ve pek nadir durumlarda harekete geçerler. Düşün…"-Stefan Zweig, Momentos estelares de la humanidad: Catorce miniaturas históricas
"ich spüre wieder erschrocken, eine wie schwache, armselige und quallige Substanz das doch sein muß, was wir immer großspurig Seele, Geist, Gefühl, was wir Schmerzen nen- nen, da all dies selbst im äu…"-Stefan Zweig, Momentos estelares de la humanidad: Catorce miniaturas históricas
13. When We Cease to Understand the World
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.14
Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition
One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Internat… read more
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"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
14. Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
By: Lea Ypi
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi, Albania’s Soviet-style socialism held the promise of a preordai… read more
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"In March, they said we were all victims. They accepted us. In August, they looked at us as if we were some kinds of menace, like we were about to eat their children."-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"Todavía hoy asocio todos nuestros esfuerzos por enterarnos de lo que pasaba en el mundo exterior al nombre de Dajti, la apartada cordillera que rodeaba nuestra capital y dominaba su paisaje como si l…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"In the past, one would have been arrested for wanting to leave. Now that nobody was stopping us from emigrating, we were no longer welcome on the other side. The only thing that had changed was the c…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"[...]Many of those friends were self-declared socialists - Wester socialists, that is. They spoke about Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky, Salvador Allende or Ernesto 'Che' Guevara as secular saints. It o…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
15. The Maniac
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more
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"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac
16. De ninguna parte
By: Julia Navarro
3.98
Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition
Abir Nasr es un adolescente que presencia, impotente, el asesinato de su familia durante una misión… read more
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17. The Agony of Eros
By: Byung-Chul Han
3.93
Format: 76 pages, Kindle Edition
An argument that love requires the courage to accept self-negation for the sake of discovering the … read more
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"Philosophy is the translation of the Eros into Logos"-Byung-Chul Han, The Agony of Eros
"Such crises make it plain that capitalism - counter to widespread belief - is not a religion. Every religion operates with both debt (guilt) and relief (pardon). But capitalism only works with debt a…"-Byung-Chul Han, The Agony of Eros
18. Blindness
By: José Saramago
4.17
Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition
From Nobel Prize–winning author José Saramago, a magnificent, mesmerizing parable of loss A city… read more
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"الناس يتعودون إي شيء ."-José Saramago, Blindness
"هناك أوقات لايفيد معها الكلام ."-José Saramago, Blindness
"* البطون الفارغة تستيقظ باكراً ."-José Saramago, Blindness
"* الأحقاد القديمة لاتزول بسهولة ."-José Saramago, Blindness
19. Literatura infantil
By: Alejandro Zambra
4.25
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
Diario de paternidad, «carta al hijo» y ficción pura conviven en extraordinaria armonía a lo largo … read more
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"No recuerdo nuestro primer viaje solos, a mis tres o cuatro años, pero él lo ha contado tantas veces que su relato funciona casi como un recuerdo implantado."-Alejandro Zambra, Literatura infantil
"La biología nos asegura un lugar en sus vidas, pero igual ansiamos que nos elijan como padres. Que alguna vez digan esta frase tan maravillosamente rara: 'Mi padre fue mi verdadero padre'."-Alejandro Zambra, Literatura infantil
"Me enorgullece que la primera palabra pronunciada por mi hijo, hace cinco días, haya sido, contra toda tendencia estadística, la palabra papá. Ahora la dice a cada rato. Todavía le cuesta, eso sí, ar…"-Alejandro Zambra, Literatura infantil
"La lectura silenciosa es en cierto modo una conquista; quienes leemos en silencio y en soledad aprendemos, justamente, a estar solos, o mejor dicho reconquistamos una soledad menos agresiva, una sole…"-Alejandro Zambra, Literatura infantil
20. Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
By: Daron Acemoğlu
3.90
Format: None pages, Audiobook
The bestselling co-author of Why Nations Fail and the bestselling co-author of 13 Bankers deliver a… read more
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21. Las gratitudes
By: Delphine de Vigan
4.30
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
«Hoy ha muerto una anciana a la que yo quería. A menudo pensaba: "Le debo tanto." O: "Sin ella, pro… read more
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"A veces conviene aceptar el vacío que deja la pérdida. Renunciar a la distracción. Aceptar que ya no hay nada que decir. Permanecer sentado, a su vera. Cogiéndola de la mano."-Delphine de Vigan, Las gratitudes
"Tras sus miradas borrosas, sus gestos inseguros, sus cuerpos encorvados o doblados por la mitad, busco al muchacho o a la muchacha que fueron como quien pretende descubrir el esbozo original de un di…"-Delphine de Vigan, Las gratitudes
22. Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
By: Lisa Feldman Barrett
4.05
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From the author of How Emotions Are Made , a captivating collection of short essays about your bra… read more
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"The triune brain idea is one of the most successful and widespread errors in all of science."-Lisa Feldman Barrett, Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
"Sometimes we're responsible for things not because they're our fault, but because we're the only ones who can change them."-Lisa Feldman Barrett, Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
"The best thing for your nervous system is another human. The worst thing for your nervous system is also another human. This situation leads us to a fundamental dilemma of the human condition."-Lisa Feldman Barrett, Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
23. La muerte viene estilando
By: Andrés Montero
4.55
Format: 129 pages, Paperback
Quedarse en pana en medio del campo chileno es también enredarse en su mitología. Abrir este libro … read more
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24. El año en que hablamos con el mar
By: Andrés Montero
4.46
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Una isla, un pacto con el diablo, la campana de oro hundida, el cementerio sin cuerpos y una tabern… read more
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25. Left Is Not Woke
By: Susan Neiman
3.61
Format: None pages, ebook
If you're woke, you're left. If you're left, you're woke. We blur the terms, assuming that if you'r… read more
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"Identity politics not only contract the multiple components of our identities to one: they essentialize that component over which we have the least control."-Susan Neiman, Left Is Not Woke
"Critical understanding can arise from powerlessness, but does it always do so? Few champions of standpoint epistemology would argue that it does. And, if not, can we allow the experience of powerless…"-Susan Neiman, Left Is Not Woke
26. Salvador Allende: La izquierda chilena y la Unidad Popular
By: Daniel Mansuy
4.46
Format: 387 pages, Kindle Edition
Daniel Mansuy analiza el legado político de Salvador Allende y la izquierda chilena desde la década… read more
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27. La Unidad Popular: Los mil días de Salvador Allende y la vía chilena al socialismo (Spanish Edition)
By: Alfredo Sepúlveda
4.44
Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition
A 50 años del gobierno de la Unidad Popular, este es un relato historiográfico y periodístico. En … read more
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28. La Maravillosa Lámpara de Paolo Lunare
By: Cristò
4.21
Format: 97 pages, Paperback
¿La omisión es una mentira o no? ¿Cuántas son necesarias para no perturbar las relaciones que mante… read more
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29. Por qué importa la filosofía
By: Carlos Peña
3.81
Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition
En este necesario y perspicaz ensayo, Carlos Peña se hace cargo críticamente del menos precio del q… read more
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30. El momento populista chileno
By: Cristóbal Bellolio
3.86
Format: 136 pages, Kindle Edition
«En estos dieciséis años», afirma en el prólogo su autor, «terminó por diluirse el clivaje democrát… read more
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31. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
By: Yuval Noah Harari
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more
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